Triple

T10719826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sparta, Mississippi E252786 entity
Predicate portrayedByRealLocation P66529 FINISHED
Object Sparta, Illinois
Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County known for serving as the real-life filming location that stood in for the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, in the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
E882068 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Sparta, Illinois | Statement: [Sparta, Mississippi, portrayedByRealLocation, Sparta, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sparta, Illinois
Context triple: [Sparta, Mississippi, portrayedByRealLocation, Sparta, Illinois]
  • A. Seneca, Illinois
    Seneca, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois situated along the Illinois River, known historically for its role in World War II shipbuilding.
  • B. Cicero, Illinois
    Cicero, Illinois is a historic inner-ring suburb of Chicago known for its industrial base, dense residential neighborhoods, and significant immigrant communities.
  • C. Palatine, Illinois
    Palatine, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, schools, and access to regional transportation.
  • D. Athens, Illinois
    Athens, Illinois is a small city in Menard County that functions as part of the greater Springfield, Illinois region.
  • E. Homer, Illinois
    Homer, Illinois is a small rural village located in eastern Illinois within the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Sparta, Illinois
Triple: [Sparta, Mississippi, portrayedByRealLocation, Sparta, Illinois]
Generated description
Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County known for serving as the real-life filming location that stood in for the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, in the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sparta, Illinois
Target entity description: Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County known for serving as the real-life filming location that stood in for the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, in the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
  • A. Seneca, Illinois
    Seneca, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois situated along the Illinois River, known historically for its role in World War II shipbuilding.
  • B. Cicero, Illinois
    Cicero, Illinois is a historic inner-ring suburb of Chicago known for its industrial base, dense residential neighborhoods, and significant immigrant communities.
  • C. Palatine, Illinois
    Palatine, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, schools, and access to regional transportation.
  • D. Athens, Illinois
    Athens, Illinois is a small city in Menard County that functions as part of the greater Springfield, Illinois region.
  • E. Homer, Illinois
    Homer, Illinois is a small rural village located in eastern Illinois within the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: portrayedByRealLocation
Context triple: [Sparta, Mississippi, portrayedByRealLocation, Sparta, Illinois]
  • A. basedOnRealLocation chosen
    Indicates that something is derived from, inspired by, or modeled after an actual geographic place in the real world.
  • B. plotLocation
    Indicates the relationship between a creative work and the place or setting where its story or events occur.
  • C. setInFictionalOrRealLocation
    Indicates that something (such as a story, event, or scene) takes place within a specified location, whether that location is real or fictional.
  • D. portrayedBy
    Indicates that one entity serves as the actor or performer who represents or plays the role of another entity in a work or medium.
  • E. basedInFictionalLocation
    Indicates that an entity’s primary setting, origin, or operations occur in a fictional (non-real) location.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d6aa5d8be481909a43218b2bfdbe95 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6ff3722ec8190b2d78a5630bf6efc completed April 9, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dbb72b9ce08190a9134f3365d3f8cb completed April 12, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69dbbbe3d9dc819088f85d41ef66ab29 completed April 12, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69dbc58a5ef481908e67fff6686fb506 completed April 12, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d6f30455888190b77f476b8418eaee completed April 9, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:13 p.m.